Thank you for this. It helps people keep things in perspective. It also helps to burst the sentimentality bubble that tends to dismiss all new music and revere as sacred all music before 1990.

It's definitely a design failure. I had to velcro some soft exercise weights to the back of my Quest 2 headset to remove most of the downward pressure on my sinuses. Before that the sinus headaches it induced were brutal.

It really must be something like that. Based on the admittedly anecdotal evidence of the unreliability of these machines, McDonalds is losing a MASSIVE amount of revenue because of Taylor's inability to adequately engineer and/or service their machines properly.

Never attribute to malice (or conspiracy) that which is adequately explained by stupidity (or ineptitude).

I really think this take on Billy Idol is Songsmith's greatest accomplishment:

http://mocksession.com/ZOMBIE/...

The author of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

Nope. One unit x 1,963% is 19.63 units.

Here's a great site for randomized A/B testing of AAC 320 kbps vs FLAC. Be sure to use a computer with a decent sound card and some quality headphones. Warning: you might find out that your ears aren't as "golden" as you think:

http://abx.digitalfeed.net/

Some additional tests are here:

http://abx.digitalfeed.net/lis...

Or, you could use something like DarkRoom.

I remember taking a survey of Western philosophy that I found pretty difficult to follow. The professor tended to ramble and didn't follow much of an outline. I ended up recording every lecture (on an old school microcassette recorder) while just listening and watching, then transcribing the recordings into notes immediately following the class. It was a little laborious, and it wasn't a magic bullet, but I think I ended up getting an "A".

Well, my old Ford Contour had a key interface that failed. The tumblers in the ignition simply wore out. No amount of graphite could bring them back to life. So, I had to have the ignition tumblers replaced, the two front door lock and trunk lock replaced, and the new keys programmed. Not cheap.

Whole Foods has gradually shifted to an upscale hybrid gourmet/organic model for their stores over the last decade or so. The Natural Grocers chain (owned by Vitamin Cottage) is much more in line with the type of retailer described in the article.

The Nanking Massacre (AKA "Rape of Nanking") is just one example of the atrocities committed by Japan. From the late 19th century through WWII the Japanese goverment was extremely militaristic and hell bent on expanding their empire by any means necessary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre

I wonder where they get their funding from? Too bad John's not around to provide "out-of-the-box" strategic fundraising ideas.

And don't forget his psychotic atonal pleadings: "Mr. tambourine man? MR. TAMBOURINE MAN??!!!!!"